Since business began, there has been an honourable and courteous competition among hotel owners as similar venues vied for our business. It appears however, that a growing strategy in the current climate hotel trade is to circulate rumour of financial difficulty at other hotels.
At DayOut.ie, we are hearing from more and more users who each have a story to tell about hotels they have visited when viewing venues for wedding celebrations and other events, only to be advised quietly not to book that last hotel because "rumour has it, they're in trouble".
Of course, there is nothing new in pitching your stall and encouraging visitors to buy more of your 'wares' that the guy across the square! Spreading malicious and damaging rumours about that guy across the square is quite another thing.
With the future of many hotels reliant on group bookings like weddings, events and conferences, is this strategy securing the sale but damaging the trade?
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not nice to hear. trying to arrange a wedding is stressful enough without this going on!
people should have a bit more cop and not be taken in by it!
been going on forever, nothing new
Too right! it's always going on and it's really not helpful. My sister fell in love with one particular venue, only to have her vision quashed by another hotel in the same county. Both of them lost the business because she didn't book either!